Gavin perfect pitch update (longer version)

[spicecrop]

you can tell in all videos I have seen of this kid that he does not want to do this and his dad is forcing him. You can tell he would rather do something else. But hopefully he won't resent his dad later in life and will be glad his dad made him train his ear.

[johnlagomarsini]

Poor boy, I thought he was going to cry at the end! I think it Is because you were laughing. -:O

[bryceguy72]

Hey guys, if you have any impressive talents or skills, don't worry.... there will always be people like gelfddelfg who'll poop all over your abilities.

[11jupitercowboy8]

@bryceguy72 Ain't it true, tho?

[seoyoon7473]

what a genius

[arcticjungle6]

so lucky...

[gelfddelfg]

how that child know? there's a mirror behind the cameraman..

problem solved. case closed.

[nothankyooo]

@gelfddelfg then how did he sing the pitches at the end?

[gabinja]

@gelfddelfg you obviously don‘t know anything about absolute pitch. It is not a talent or a trick but a very particular brain configuration. A person with this feature can recognize notes just like anyone can recognize colors without a reference. I recomend you the book Musicophilia by Dr. Sacks. I really understand that your first impression is that it is a trick, but because of that I encourage you to inform yourself about this reality.

[Huzzawful]

is there a way to learn this stuff

[arcticjungle6]

@Huzzawful you can train yourself to have really good relative pitch, but i believe absolute pitch is a genetic variation...

a shame really.

[11jupitercowboy8]

@arcticjungle6 Absolutely not, my friend. Absolute pitch can be trained. I've seen it and I've worked on it myself with much success. There's just a ridiculous stigma surrounding it.

[arcticjungle6]

@11jupitercowboy8 really? I've always felt that you can have very good relative pitch, but absolute or pefect pitch comes by genetically. 

[11jupitercowboy8]

@arcticjungle6 I promise you that's not the case. It's just a different kind of listening. Also, it's no different than anything else. If you weren't born with it, you have to practice it to get it. I don't know why people accept that you have to practice to develop great skill on an instrument but you have to be 'born' with great ears. Eartraining, both AP and RP should be an integral part of any practice regime. Afterall, music is sound and sound is heard with the ears, no?

[arcticjungle6]

@11jupitercowboy8 so have you been personally able to train yourself to absolute pitch?

[11jupitercowboy8]

@arcticjungle6 Yes to a fair degree. I've been working on it off and on (along with RP as well) for nearly 14 years now. I know others though, who have succeeded better than me, though. Check out Prolobe.com and look at the 'all user rankings'. There're two guys that have completed the course. The highest level is random 5-note chords where each note in the chord is a different timbre.

[antidoteco]

that is saaweet- good job !

[Zrokool123]

makes me sick

[IShadow90]

holy crap

[adurgaram]

wow,, i have perfect pitch to, but im so jealous he is truly amazing !

[PianoAndTrumpetMan96]

I have perfect and I was trying to keep up with the kid. It was fun to do it.

[DomX4]

I have perfect pitch too. I just tried to test myself along with this video. I couldn't keep up with the boy. His skills are incredible. I didn't realize I could identify pitches until I was about 14 years old, so he has a definite advantage. I'm amazed.

[Estevarium]

little mutherfucker

:)

[drwaxmax]

very good young man!, i didn't attempt perfect pitch(to those who don't know, you do not have to be very young to achieve this) until much later in my life, if you have questions regarding how this can be attempted, you can email me :D..a music journey starting this young has many options, and numerous possibilities....just great

[MrGamester66]

my music teacher said i have perfect pitch!!!!

[11jupitercowboy8]

That kid is ridiculously talented but he looks tired. I hope he's truly passionate about this. I do believe that parents should encourage and guide a talented child but there's a fine line between guidance and total control. Ha.

[bachdeanOnline]

@11jupitercowboy8

he is not tired actually, but he suffer from illness, leukemia if i'm not mistaken. i haven't got any updated about progress of his illness yet since last year. let's pray he is still fine out there.

[MawcDrums]

wow this kid is incredible

[grumpalf]

That will all happen if the kid decides to tell anyone, or leaves high-school because of other people's high-school act. And with most people it won't mean anything, and it will seem like bragging, because I guess there are real isms in this Country called fascists and communists who think they run this Country.

And political people, well, perhaps it will be all up to God in the end with the Armageddon or Zombie Apocalypse. Parents? - glad I had some who listened to Lawence Welk music.

[grumpalf]

Besides the people who will be negative about it unless the kid works in the music industry or has a college degree in it, other people will exploit, be adverse about it, except for perhaps a few, who actually don't care but to do what they can theirselves playing a musical instrument, and it will be a burden that is used against him by most people because according to them, it scares them. Of course I guess that is why, people are from Hell also.

[grumpalf]

Unless learning different ways to listen to music, the kid is forever saddled with only hearing pitches of notes in any music. If you think that is any music enjoyment, I do not.

And by the way, learning a different way to listen to music after knowing the notes, would be extremely more difficult and very hard to do.

[ralphyy1234]

Perfect pitch really is amazing. They say that you can teach children perfect pitch by teaching them pitches at the same time you teach them color differentiation and this bewilders me. I don't know if that's true, but if it is, it really just shows how little music is considered to be a fundamental concept. If all we need to do is teach pitches, then we should do that with everyone. It's kind of sad that the most people ever achieve in their lives is relevant pitch.

[culveyhouse]

:O

[chawlaybua]

I like how he threw in the C7 at the end. Mariah Carey's probably sitting in a chair saying "Show them, Dahhhling."

[MaxwellHoliday]

:O amazing



[bbat4ever9000]

Good job, wait until he starts naming pitches of squeaky doors and low pitched farts!

[bianca98642]

@bbat4ever9000 LOL! my friend names the pitch of my phone key tones LOL!

[sergeidave]

@bbat4ever9000 LOL, I actually called a few low pitched farts some years ago! But I only have relative pitch, not absolute pitch... But it was hilarious how everybody was like "eewww!!" and I was like "wait! hold on! that's a freaking C#!" LOL

[wallabeetles]

I saw this on the Alphapowers site and just had to look it up. Amazing!

[solarberry62442]

kwl

[pretz98]

Holy shit. No jokes. But I think I have perfect pitch. I'm not that good at chords. Notes I'm pretty good at. But singing the note I'm very accurate.

[JackStrata]

Everyone on youtube has perfect pitch, it seems...

[LifeOfAubrey]

i have perfect pitch but i am not quite as fast as he is!

[88jazzorama]

I have this ability to, but I am not as fast as he is. He is insain.

[Bashe86]

I also have this ability, but I am NOWHERE NEAR as fast to actually name the notes! Not to mention I'm just awful at chords and keys :\

[DrShpilev]

Quite amazing. HOWEVER the first part can be done with just relative pitch. He hears the intervals and then figures out the notes. Of course for the very first note you'd need perfect pitch... and yeah and he was going up and down multiple octaves so maybe that'd be a problem for someone with only relative pitch.

Hearing chord's was pretty crazy as well.

[11jupitercowboy8]

@DrShpilev If you work on your RP enough, you can develop the ability to hear those relationships regardless of the span between the notes. A compound 5th, 7th, what have you becomes just as easy to identify as one in 'close' position. Even the speed can probably be matched but you'd have to have insane RP because not only is it about intervals but your mind naturally builds key centers around the notes you're hearing. So you have to be able to follow key changes as well.

[11jupitercowboy8]

@11jupitercowboy8 Point being I think it's safe to say he's using all AP :op

[eloab]

great!!!

keep working that gift...

by the moment there's nothing important

[therealjakegreen]

if this isn't a minor form of autism, that's one talented kid. much, much better than me and i've been playing longer than he's been alive.

[jamesmanortiz]

@therealjakegreen What does autism have to do with anything?

[maestroanth]

put him on prolobe dude. it will be cool.

[maestroanth]

he has prolobe lvl 36 i say, haha!!!

[philnoll]

its still relative pitch. What were you going off? You had a piano?

[ElverdugodelRequinto]

Los cientificos dicen que escuchan las notas por vibraciones y conocen sus vibraciones,llegan hasta registrar desafinacion,por milesimas.Las notas se coniverten entonces ...como las cosa visuales para ellos.Yo puedo registrar muchas notas por el oido, pero es la experiencia de los años y la madures del oido.Estos 'Perfect Picht" si logran tener el talento proseguir con el estudio salen entonces genios como Betohven ,mossart y otros.

[MrClevelandSteamer12]

I went to a jazz camp in kentucky with this kid and he plays drums too... im almost positive he will be a professional as an adult.

[xxguitarhero48xx]

Ouch.. I have perfect pitch. I used to be that fast. 

[philnoll]

@xxguitarhero48xx Perfect pitch is learned, not inherited.

[xxguitarhero48xx]

@philnoll Then explain why i'd tune my dad's guitar before i could talk? i was about 1 or 2 when i used to say up.. or down whenever his strings were off. it wasn't taught, it was discovered at a young age.

[JimmyLeeHook]

Also - be sure that piano is tuned to A-440 so that he doesn't store reference pitches in his brain that are slightly off. He probably already has them stored, so it's already probably too late to change it. But you should be dead on at A-440.

[JimmyLeeHook]

Most people don't know what this is. But I do. I play with a bass player who has it. Just be sure he gets used to changing keys of various songs, and learns to tolerate things not tuned to perfect A-440. Some master recordings are sped up slightly, taking them off of A-440, and hearing it drives my bassist insane.

He recently went to a concert where all the musicians tuned slightly sharp. It was 2 hours of pain for him. Train that boy now so that his gift doesn't become a curse.

[cybernetics]

Seems more like he's been trained into it.

[az1421]

awesome 

[yetanothersongwriter]

Wow! And another wow! Followed by one more wow!

Amazing

A.D

[FORSATKEY]

great ....

[endylovesmusic]

That's amazing! Gavin's gonna go far! I shared it on fb with my family and friends!

[endylovesmusic]

That's amazing! Gavin's gonna go far!

[EdMuirton]

Wow! Amazing talent! I've been playing for 30yrs and I can't do that! lol. Most enjoyed! Cheers!

[GreatestOnlineVideos]

A very talented young man!

[rensjex]

tune your piano dude

[haffner6]

I just found out that my son has perfect pitch about a week ago! He has autism and has a hard time with the physical aspect of playing an instrument, so I'm not really sure how to get him to use it yet. I'm trying to get him involved with some music teachers in my area to find out how to proceed best with instruction. He doesn't know any theory yet, and he has a hard time with anything more than diads, but I have only been making him practice for a week now.

[Brendonpiano]

I have perfect pitch too! Let's be twins! ;)

[wy2kool4u]

Fake and gay

[neo4reals]

@wy2kool4u You are an idiot

[drag0nfig0]

Just look at the poor kid..he looks like he hasn't been out of the house in weeks. It's torture ffs.

[nahtecojp]

Wow. Can he identify in hertz and non-musical sounds?

[angusyoung1971]

awww, is someone a little jealous drag0nfig0??

Awesome!

[xMcIceTx]

interesting how he allways looks over to the right (suggesting he is recalling some information)! I'd love to have a perfect pitch!

[supeultramegaunknown]

Perfect pitch is just that, perfect pitch. Sometimes it's even bothering. My piano teacher discovered that I had perfect pitch when I was about 9. Now I'm 25 and I tell you that there's nothing really cool about having it (besides all the straight As in music theory classes in college).

I'm glad Gavin has perfect pitch, but just tell him that this unique feature is just that, a unique feature and nothing else, just like when people have blue or green or brown eyes. Saludos!

[alika207]

Sweet! I have it too btw!

[evacookie913]

ok, make him learn piano, guitar, something or everything, get him voice lessons and he'll get his future garanteed lol...he's already more advanced than many kids without the lessons...

[jiyder]

wow!!!! this is great, he'll have a great career in music...music is fun..its not like those crazy parents preaching sports on their kids and living through their kids.......

[supeultramegaunknown]

@jiyder I've had perfect pitch all my life, and I don't have a great career in music. I did begun a music career and studied music in college. I did really well until I decided to pursue a different direction, but ot this I'm sure: even If I had ended up being a superstar or a worldwide known genious, it would have had NOTHING to do with my physical ability. Nothing.

Music is fun and it's my passion, but having perfect pitch has nothing to do with being a great or succesful musician.

[drag0nfig0]

Funny how a physical ability is considered "talent." There's no such thing as talent, just pure physical ability. He lucked out and gets to be a better musician with less effort than those without perfect pitch. But, he's not a monkey that you should videotape and put on Youtube.

Also, Gavin is a stupid name.

[NxGodz]

@drag0nfig0 Jealous much? and "drag0nfig0" is a stupid name. Go destroy your computer and stop paying for internet; it will do the YouTube users a favor. Have a great day! Bitch..

[drag0nfig0]

@NxGodz At least I don't play Runescape.

[NxGodz]

@drag0nfig0 Better than Trolling kid.

[drag0nfig0]

@NxGodz What?

[ADOPTmeBITCH]

buy the little guy a guitar in order to get the chicks or else he's gonna end up like u

[ToastmachineIdiot]

That was great.

I give you my regards, Gavin.

I have perfect pitch too!

[Splurgendii]

once puberty hits and you lose those high pitch notes... is there any way to get them back?

[MattieSongbird]

That's awesome!

[nygrow10]

stop abusing the child! jk jk

[DannyWrigley]

That's a whistle tone he hit at the top, you should get him some voice lessons so he can keep that after puberty, that's a valuable asset haha. Can he do stuff yet where you play a melody with an accompaniment and he just comes over and copies it?

[joshie92]

wow! im jealous. don't let your talent go to waste, keep practicing!

[first4the2nd]

mother of god!

[Solis1112]

damn i wish i had those skills. that high C is gonna be gone once puberty hits though hahaha

[bpsrsbeej]

This is awesome. How old was he when you all discovered this. Our son can do most of this as well. We discovered it at age three. I LOVE the high C.  I will definately be saving this for our son to watch in the morning, he will love it!

[aalexcp]

roflt at the end

[Ritaliation]

perfect!

[4u2b1ib12]

Get Gavin in front of an orchestra, as soon as possible. At least in the rehearsal hall to train with a conductor. I believe the potential will help him, in a lifetime of music.

Best wishes.

[777Marlene]

Gavin , you're an incredible kid, if you ever decide to pursue music you would be a guaranteed success....i write music, and play several instruments ,but i dont have near the ear that you do, i have to look at the fretboard ,or the keyboard sometimes.....have alot of fun and be a good boy ...you rock little guy

[JPPT1974]

Keep this up, you will be a great drummer Gavin. I have a nephew that loves to drum as well.

[syelirdad]

Gavin you rock, Love the drum videos!

Drummer with perfect pitch! Cool.. I'm a drummer too!

[DeeMenard]

i think he was serious because he was consentrating on what he was doing.. very cool.

[elegantmoose]

He's probably just a calm kid. They do exist you know. Why do people always have to assume the worst?

[00Pablo01]

talented kid

[garad123456]

And you all idiots saying he has been practicing: you know nothing. Check "absolute pitch" from wikipedia, its natural talent. And besides he looks like normal child and its not your job to tell the father how to raise his child when you know NOTHING.

[superman11978]

What do you mean poor kid? You're supposed to force kids to learn stuff. They can't just be farting around all day. I'm glad my parents pushed me into a bunch of different lessons and classes. Even though I didn't pursue any of it further, it was still good for me. The brain is like a sponge when you're younger and it's important to expose kids to as much as possible, if only for their brain development.

[garad123456]

Thats right. Even if children dont want to, I think its ok to put them to piano lessons etc. BUT not too much of course!

[alexanderrrrrrrrr]

From my experience I hated and still hate being forced into something. I want to explore things for myself on my own pace knowing WHY I do the stuff rather then to just do the stuff because "we are supposed to". That's a fundamental difference. Why must everything be forced. Reach the kid the tools for exploring and let him/her explore whatever he wants withing certain boundaries. If not he willl just execute what he has learnt without any further understanding...and what is that worth?

[TheUntitledBandMusic]

leave that kid alone

[digitalrivers]

Uh video games will make him into a fat loser, this will make him able to write his own songs and have a band if he wants.

[JackANDJude]

You sound good Gavin. I hope you get to sing with a boys choir!

[GavinC2k8]

Thats my name 2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[nefastable]

Awesome. Congratulate him. HARD.

Which instrument[s] does he play?

[nefastable]

Lazy me, I should have watched the other videos.

[nubbs]

that's awesome, imagine if you didnt play an instrument and your son's talent was left hidden. tragedy

[hersheywershey]

Amazing, Gavin! Thanks for sharing the video with us!

[BrandonandBenji]

hes going to be famous one day

[abbynormal0ne]

man, that would have come in handy in all my stupid music theory classes when we had to write out all the notes we heard.

[ryansmythmusic]

That kid will grow up to be able to play any instrument. Good work.

[TheLalalydia]

That is so adorable. There are only a few perfect pitch people in the world. Incredibly lucky kid you have there ;)

[fallofnations]

congrats you've got yourself a producer or a musician i am truly jealous at his talent.

[sumfight]

damn, right on

[strawberryhamster]

incredible!!! what an amazing gift!!!

[pop3y384]

I am so awesomely jealous

[Veteran4Peace]

This young man is astonishing. Wow!